If you are still leveling fishing, even starting from scratch, fishing skillups start very quickly, but they start to slow way down somewhere around 250-300 or so, in my experience. Always keep fishing bait on hand to give yourself a boost, and stick with it. You'll get there eventually!

This guide is dedicated to all the achievements related to the Fishing profession. This is not a guide on how to level fishing. From 25 peixes to Pescador de Sucesso, I'm here to help you through it!

If you see that means that achievement is part of the Fishing Profession meta Achievement Pescador de Sucesso. Keep an eye out for them!

Let's get fishing!

A useful tool to use while browsing around Wowhead is the Profile tool. If you mouse over achievements/items/spells/etc you should get a tooltip popup that has a list of characters with little green checkmarks on it (See image). If there is a checkmark, that toon has completed/learned that achievement/item/spell/etc. Achievement tooltips will only show a checkmark when they are completed, it does not show progress.

Not showing up? You haven't set up your profiles! In the upper right, in the menu that drops down under your name, click the "My Profiles" link (or click here to get started). Follow the instructions and set up profiles for characters whose info you want to track. Once you have their profiles loaded and synced from Battle.net, click the little heart icon to Pin your character. That character will now be tracked in tooltips.

What this also means is that you can visit your Profile pages and have a quick and easy view for everything you might be looking to track, from reputations to recipes to mounts and titles.You can have up to 10 profiles saved. If you need/want more, you'll have to upgrade to a Premium account.

For example: my character Breke's Profile, already set to show you the Incomplete recipes she needs for cooking achievements.

GENERAL

Fish Don't Leave Footprints

Peixes não deixam pegadasLearn the amazing ability to Find Fish! This requires that you reach 100 skill in Fishing, and then acquire the Diário Gasto pelo Tempo, which can be obtained from various crates and fishing daily loot bags. Once learned, this ability functions like other tracking types do - toggle on/off and yellow fishing node dots will show on your map, and fishing pools will now sparkle. Yay!

The Fishing Diplomat

O diplomata pescadorFish something up in Orgrimmar and Stormwind. (This has to be done on the SAME character)Diplomatic mission or not, you don't have diplomatic immunity. Guards and players alike will probably attack you in your enemy faction's city. I would recommend doing this at max level, or at least when you have access to flying in Azeroth. You can mount up, fly in and drop down next to fishable water, cast and catch something, mount back up and get out of dodge. Check to make sure your criteria is ticked in the achievements panel before you leave. If you have a penchant for pain, then by all means just mosey on in and do your thing.

The Limnologist

A good portion of these might already be obtained from the previous Angler achievements, or over the course of you leveling fishing.Some of the fish in this list can be caught in multiple places. I listed only the most highly concentrated fishing areas. If zones are bolded then they are recommended zones from the list.

The Oceanographer

A good portion of these might already be obtained from the previous Angler achievements, or over the course of you leveling fishing.Some of the fish in this list can be caught in multiple places. I listed only the most highly concentrated fishing areas. If zones are bolded then they are recommended zones from the list.

DUNGEONS

The Lurker Above

I recommend doing this at max level, as the mobs, and even the boss, will be trivial at that point. Otherwise, you'll have to either have someone carry you through to the pool and kill the boss for you, or you'll have to use some combination of water-walking abilities or potions to avoid the evil Farnesim Presacurva that will come nibble on you as soon as you enter the water. You will also most likely die to the boss you fish up if you aren't sufficiently out-leveled for the raid zone, or you know, in a full raid.

You also need ~300 Skill in fishing to reliably fish up the boss, although technically you can now fish in any water regardless of skill. You'll just be more likely to get junk at lower levels.

The Lurker Below (Strange Pool)EntranceFrom the entrance, take the first elevator down and the second one up.Run down the path, take a left turn and follow the suspended walkways to the circular area.Boss is in the middle of the wooden planks.

This is where you are going - the circle of wooden planks on the left.You can see the pool of water you need to fish in the middle of them.Screenshot credit goes to Hairband

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DAILIES

Fish or Cut Bait

Example: História de pescador: AltaforjaComplete each Fishing Daily Quest for <Capital City>.Completing all 3 for your faction will award Para sempre pescador, which has Account-wide progression, so you can get different Fish or Cut Bait achievements on different characters.Select quests offer 2 Skillups, except for Ironforge, for some reason.

TIMESINKS & MISC/RNG

Learning From the Best

The only way to do this is to turn in 3 different rare Pandaria fish for 500 rep each. These are daily quests, and you can only have 1 of each fish in your inventory at a time; you can indeed go and re-catch the quest fish again after you've turned them in, for use the next day, if you wish.

Okay guys, I did the math. Since you need 42k reputation to become best friends with Nat, you can assume that the math is 42,000/(660 x 3) each fish gives 660 rep (if you're in a guild with 10% rep and not a human). So the math says 21.212121… days so 22 days if you consistently get all three fish every day except for the 22nd day where you can get one to be best friends because each fish gives .333… of a day, if you think about it. You'll be already exalted with the anglers if you do the dailies as well, so don't worry about that. If you are a human and in a 10% rep guild, then it will take you 42,000/(720 x 3) which is 19.4 days which is 20 days of farming all three fish, but on the 20th day, you only need to farm 2 of the 3 fish to get best friend. Finally, if you're not in a guild and you're not a human (I don't know why you wouldn't just join a guild for the rep but whatever…) then it'll take you 23.33333 days of consistent 3 fish hand ins but on the 24th day, you only have to hand in 1 fish.

So here is the conclusion:

Not Human, Not in a guild with 10% rep: 24 days (on the 24th day, you only need to catch 1 of the three fish)Human, Not in a guild with 10% rep / Not human, In a guild with 10% : 22 days ( On the 22nd day you only need to catch 1 of the three fish)Human, in a guild with 10% rep : 20 days (20th day, you need to catch 2 fish at least in order to ding Best Friend)

Hope this was helpful.

And thank you shkm for a neat macro to let you know about which fish you have/haven't turned in that day:/run local d=1;for n,i in pairs({=31446,=31444,=31443}) do if not IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(i) then d=nil;DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(n.." undone.",1,0,0) end end if d then print("All done!") end

Master Angler of Azeroth

Run around fishing from various fishing pools in Stranglethorn Vale while the contest is active, get 40 Papa-fina-pintado, and get back to Booty Bay to turn them in ASAP to try and get First, Second or Third place!

The contest starts at 2PM PST and ends at 5PM PST. Make sure to check the difference between your timezone and PST. Try to be in Booty Bay a little before the contest starts, to be able to set up as you prefer. Most people set their hearthstone to the Inn in Booty Bay, so they can hearth back as soon as they have their stacks of Papa-fina-pintado (you need a total of 40 fish, or 2 Stacks). Having a way to walk on water (such as Canoa dos Pescadores) is a definite plus for those hard to reach pools, and cuts down on time of having to mount/dismount.

Good luck!

Old Crafty & Old Ironjaw

Nothing really special for either of these, just time consuming and RNG. Find a spot you are comfortable in, and have at it! Since achievements are account-wide, you don't HAVE to do it on the same toon if you don't want to deal with PVP shenanigans, but where's the fun in that?Good luck!

Mr. Pinchy's Magical Crawdad Box

Fish up Sr. Belisco from Highland Mixed Schools in Terokkar. Flying Mount required.Bring a few cold ones and some entertainment, you'll probably be here a while. Mr. Pinchy's ability has a chance to drop Caixa de Lagostim Mágico, which is what you are aiming for. You might need to fish him up a few times, depending on your luck. With that said....Good luck!

I Smell A Giant Rat

Fish up Rato Gigante de Esgoto in the Underbelly of Dalaran.My personal fav spot is the dock near the Cantrips and Crows Tavern, but any fishable water in the Underbelly will do. Time consuming RNG.Good luck!

Turtles All the Way Down

A Penny For Your Thoughts

Silver in the City

There's Gold In That There Fountain

Cobre minha aposta?, O diabo veste prata and Ouro de toloFish up the Copper/Silver/Gold coins from the Dalaran Fountain. All three are part of the meta O Mestre das Moedas, which is also part of the Super Meta Pescador de Sucesso.If you right click the gold coins you fish up, you'll toss the coin back into the fountain and gain a 2 minute buff "Lucky", which increases your chances to fish up coins.Once you've fished up a particular coin, it is safe to vendor it for it's measly amount.

The Coin Master

Accomplished Angler

Pescador de SucessoRewards Salty <Name>Over the course of this guide, you should achieve all the criteria of this achievement. See the Table of Contents and look for the . That means it's part of this achievement!

Comentado por Zovesta

Comentado por Thoorin

I think you should clarify Mr.Pinchy achievement. The achievement is specifically granted when you get the box that has the pet, so it's the BOX and not Mr. Pinchy that make the achievement.

Comentado por Sophina

I got my sea turtle achievement from tossing a Lunarfall Carp into the fishing pond in my garrison - after killing the enemy, he dropped the turtle. Much less time consuming way to get that achievement (or maybe I got lucky because it only took 4 or 5 carps).

Thanks for making this guide - it's a great resource!

Comentado por Reddervish

in WoD the Fire Ammonite can also be fished in Nagrand at a lava pool in Hallvalor

Comentado por Sambrael

This looks like a well put together and fairly comprehensive guide for all the fishing achievements in Pre-Draenor WOW. I look forward to killing some time notching these on my belt. Thanks for taking the time to put this together.

Comentado por Skemtar

Excellent guide, well written. It has inspired to follow it and get all the achievements!